contact form – how to send the email to an address different from the Admin

If you install a plugin like Fluent SMTP, you can add another email account as your default email account for all outgoing emails.

Hi,

@karlemilnikka Thank you for your support.

Can it be “hardcoded” somewhere that the form sends the email to a specific email address ? So avoiding adding additional plugins ?

Regards

George

• This reply was modified 10 months, 3 weeks ago by georgegd.
• This reply was modified 10 months, 3 weeks ago by georgegd.
• This reply was modified 10 months, 3 weeks ago by georgegd.

Hardcoding it wouldn’t solve the issue. You need an SMTP plugin to be able to send emails from real email accounts. If you hardcoded your real email address into the wp_mail hook and tried sending emails that way, the emails would just end up in spam since they are spoofed.

Hi,

@karlemilnikka Thank you for your support, I appreciate your help

I am currently using msmtp client installed in ubuntu server and a google email account to be contacted by this client and used to send emails from and till now everything works good and all the emails (from different plugins) arrive only to the address configured for WordPress admin. The contact form need to send email towards another email address. Do you think this can be done somehow using my current configuration?

Regards,

George

I’m so sorry. I misread your initial question. I thought you wanted to send emails from a different address. If you just want to send emails to a different address, you don’t need any plugins. You can set the receivers email address in the form block’s settings (General > Actions).

Hi,

@karlemilnikka Thank you for your support. Through your help I found it, configured and it worked great.

Regards

George